Double crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES:
Across
1. Most important
guy! (8)
5. The girl taken in
by satirists (4)
9. Smack the little
pest on return
(4)
10. Fish to be all at
sea! (8)
11. This book could
never be trite (5)
12. He was thought
to be the main
controller (7)
13. Describing the
meteorologist
who has given
the wrong
forecast? (7-6)
18. A condition
that is haltingly
displayed (8)
19. What the widow
gave a small
child (4)
20. To hide on one occasion in
short visit (7)
21. Decent point to the story (5)
22. Revolution produces a bout
of illness (4)
23. Objects to badly written
poster round the street (8)
Down
2. Do a meal in the latest style
(1,2,4)
3. Disregard lack of care (7)
4. He gives a gripping
performance with nothing
barred (3-2,8)
6. About to be suspicious of the
defence (7)
7. Boy about to press for the
operator (7)
8. Tyrian kind of patch (6)
13. The sort of strike that
produces violent uncontrolled
act (4-3)
14. No realm should be upset by
a social worker (7)
15. Prove an obstacle to progress
farther back (6)
16. An opening for one of the
members (3-4)
17. A piece taken from previous
religious paper (7)
QUICK CLUES:
Across
1. Fearful (8)
5. Not new (4)
9. Close (4)
10. Anguish (8)
11. Deluge (5)
12. Ooze (7)
13. Declaration (13)
18. Hold back (8)
19. Near (4)
20. Broad-brimmed hat (7)
21. Hooter (5)
22. Ogle (4)
23. Estrange (8)
Down
2. Respirator (7)
3. Obsolete (7)
4. Accidental (13)
6. Spot (7)
7. Slope (7)
8. Conflict (6)
13. Scrutiny (7)
14. Indecent (7)
15. Attack (6)
16. Brief notice (7)
17. Omission (7)
Yesterday’s answers
DOUBLE CROSSWORD:
Cryptic: Across: 1 Defers; 4 Pirate; 9
Foreign stamps; 10 Everest; 11 Risen; 12
Sorts; 14 Ambit; 18 Pleat; 19 Incense;
21 Queen of hearts; 22 Effect; 23 Utters.
Down: 1 Differ; 2 Forget oneself; 3 Raise;
5 Interim; 6 Admission free; 7 Easing; 8
Units; 13 Titanic; 15 Opaque; 16 Jiffy; 17
Ceases; 20 Cheat.
Quick: Across: 1 Direct; 4 Elicit; 9
Recrudescence; 10 Eclipse; 11 Fleet; 12
Hitch; 14 Trite; 18 Array; 19 Radiate; 21
Confederation; 22 Please; 23 Dainty.
Down: 1 Darken; 2 Recalcitrance; 3 Clump;
5 Lucifer; 6 Concentration; 7 Twenty; 8
Rebel; 13 Coyness; 15 Madcap; 16 Greed;
17 Meanly; 20 Drama.